Hello Malcolm.....Thanks for an interesting read. I'd never heard of
fan-subbing.

Still not sure what the 'V' and 'O' stand for though....Vegetarians
Only

Regards
Miguel

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Films screened in France will be advertised as VO and VF, meaning "version originale" and "version française". VF means the soundtrack has been dubbed into French.

so:
VO = original (language/audio) version
ST = subtitled
FR = French

VOSTFR has just become standard as a way of describing .avi files. It also makes it very easy to search for fansubs.
A similar (but more obvious) thing seems to have happened for the Swedes who have adopted "SWESUB", while the Italians and Spanish are the most internationally understandable with "sub.ITA" and "sub.Esp"...

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